Whether US president Donald Trump was joking or not when he said “nobody has ever heard of Lesotho”, the remark reveals a stinking attitude towards not just the Mountain Kingdom, but Africa as a whole.

Of course, it is impossible that nobody in the army of advisers that helped him prepare his first speech to the US Congress had a clue that a country by that name existed. They may not be able to locate the landlocked country on the map, but at least a handful of them will know that it is somewhere closer to the southernmost tip of Africa...